#seedsaving

On Thursday it was to be a beautiful day, warm and sunny. I planned to get a lot done outside. But as I waited for it to warm up, I spent the time on the phone and computer, trying to find the missing

I did not post on Hive.blog for 10 days ... I was busy preparing for market, my family caught cold, work deadlines were approaching etc. Anyway I am happy to be back on Hive.blog. Spring/summer gardening

I applied to @nftshowroom as an artist few days ago to publish some plant related art works. Today, I was in Zwickau to help serve food for the opening for my partner and friends’ gallery. In between

I created a video to offer some tips on seed saving. I wanted to add the same holds true with peppers, tomato, watermelon, etc. save from your BIGGEST and best fruit. It’s hard to see those delicious juicy

This annual Seed Exchange connects gardeners, seed producers and the community over agricultural education and exchange. You’ll meet wonderful people, make valuable connections, and create relationships

Today we harvested a bunch of our runner beans so we can save the seeds for next year. We might even be able to share some with you guys! If your interested shoot us an email! Seed saving is a very important

One of our projects is to start hundreds of trees from seed. We're going to use those seedlings to try and create a new small forest in the place of another one that was removed some 80 years ago for

Learning something new every step of the way in growing plants. We had bought these Marigold transplants from the greenhouse this past spring.. but no longer will need to do that! I can use the elegan

Too bad it’s a little too late in the growing season to utilize these seeds of this pumpkin that has unfortunately fallen victim to some insects eating the rind, and jump starting the rotting process.

I am beyond fortunate to have been introduced to a fellow homesteader and gardener in the local area, @funnyfarm77 due to my new job! She was beyond ecstatic to have also met an aspiring youth with an

Typically carrots are biennial plants, meaning they flower after the second year of growth, but we got lucky this year I guess and one of our carrots got enough energy from the Sun to go to flower! I’ll

The Pirates are running a Seed Saving Workshop for interested gardeners and food enthusiasts. Two workshops will take place on Saturday the 5th of May and Sunday the 6th of May. 10 spaces available each

Here is a brief video on how to grow carrot stubs to save seed for next season. Using this method you can harvest carrots, eat the root and then regrow the plant to produce seed heads. This was the first

I originally wrote this to celebrate people that save their seeds, on International Seed Harvest Day, back in 2007. In praise of self-sufficiency I once holed-up almost an acre-island of sand and trees.

Last year we attempted to grow some arugula. I say attempted because that's all it was, an attempt LoL We had some very hot days in spring last year and the arugula (and radishes) bolted! So, I tried not

My little farmer girl Kylee can be such a big helper and she learns so fast. Yesterday we saved radish seed.

It's not to early to start thinking about and planning for the end of summer. In the fall, it is time to start collecting seeds for next years garden. It's easy to collect seeds from most annual and perennial

This is my third year growing garlic, and of course I decided I would go against the recommendation not to grow it in the same place.  I planted this years crop in the same bed because I had only